Part 1 – The Joker Chapter 76 – The Aftermath

　　Bang!

　　The silver bullet crossed a distance of a few meters and accurately drilled into the tuxedo clown’s neck, and large streams of blood flowed out with it, staining the skin and the bow tie red.

　　The tuxedo clown was unable to let out a scream, his throat was ruffled, he wanted to raise his hand and move away from that fatal injury, but his shoulder and elbow joints were as if they were filled with glue, his movements were raw and slow.

　　Bang!

　　Klein, who had entered a semi-meditative state, was not frightened by the blood and pulled the trigger once more, calmly as if he were going through his daily practice.

　　A hideous hole appeared in the tuxedoed clown’s forehead with a sudden gust, crimson berth gushed out, dimming the light of his eyes, the power of that exquisite revolver was quite a bit stronger than Klein had expected.

　　Knees buckling, arms hanging down, the tuxedoed clown slowly fell to the ground, his eyes frozen in utter bewilderment.

　　His body twitched a few times, slowly stretching out, and nothing more.

　　One shot hit, and Klein had coolly turned back, shaking off the revolver and letting the empty shell casings fall to the ground one after the other.

　　Then, dressed in black formal attire and a half-height silk bowler hat, he walked toward Al Hassan while pulling the last of the silver hunting bullets from inside his pocket and slipping the slender length of it into the chamber.

　　The reason he didn’t look back at the tuxedoed clown’s gruesome state was purely due to the discomfort of killing someone for the first time, but he couldn’t afford not to, and he didn’t know what would happen to the other man once he was completely controlled by the puppet.

　　Moreover, he did not want to risk re-entering the range of influence of the seal “2-049”, after all, no one can say whether this time there will be a strange change, so that the “transit ceremony” self-help is invalid.

　　As for the items on the tuxedo clown, Klein only cares about whether there is the so-called “clown” magic potion formula, or the corresponding clues, but this is not something that needs to be completed in a hurry, later you can and Dunn, Al and others to do a piece of work, the night watchman team is almost the same as getting their own, it is unlikely that they can not afford to give up the Sequence 8 magic potion formula, the big deal is to spend more time to do it. The magic potion formula, the big deal is to spend more time to accumulate credit, anyway, just become a “diviner” not long, there is still a long way to “digest”.

　　In the midst of his thoughts, Klein quickly walked to the side of Al Hassan, a gentleman wearing a gray trench coat with lapels who struggled to sit up several times, but failed in his attempts, and fell all over the dirt and dust.

　　”Mr. Hassan, is there anything I can do?” He asked, crouching down and opening his mouth, while the revolver in his hand was pointed diagonally at the ground to prevent accidental firing.

　　Al gasped and sighed:

　　”That monster is too strong, if it didn’t still have a weakness ……”

　　With that said, he pointed to a sky-blue metal vial beside him and scoffed to himself:

　　”I was going to take the potion, but my hand shook ……”

　　That sky-blue metal vial was roughly as thick as Klein’s thumb, with a height of no more than five centimeters, and the lid with a hidden spiral pattern fell to the side, completely soaked by the liquid.

　　Klein reached out and picked up the vial, squinted at it, and replied helplessly:

　　”Mr. Hassan, there are only a few drops left on the wall of the vial.”

　　”Look on …… Borgia, inside, in the inside pocket.” Al gasped continuously as he spoke.

　　”Okay.” Klein stood up and casually asked, “Is this a healing potion?”

　　A Mystic Side item?

　　”No, it only has a certain healing effect, the main, the main thing is to stimulate our spirit and squeeze our body’s …… potential, so that we can maintain a good condition for a short time, a short period of time, and support it until we return, and support it until we receive, and receive treatment.” Al tries to sit up, once again unsuccessfully, “It’s called, ‘The Goddess’s Gaze’ …… You remember to have Borgia drink half of the potion.”

　　Without further delay, Klein turned his body and walked quickly over to the agonizingly moaning Borgia, retrieving the formulated sky-blue metal vial from the semi-conscious night watchman’s arms.

　　Unscrewing the cap, he carefully brought the mouth of the vial to Borgia’s mouth.

　　Sensing something, Borgia struggled to open his lips.

　　The bottle tilted and the dark red liquid flowed into Borgia’s mouth.

　　Estimating the portion, Klein withdrew in time and re-screwed the cap on the bottle.

　　The potion seemed to work really well, and within seconds of Borgia swallowing, the gleam in his eyes regrouped and he spoke in a low, husky voice:

　　”Thank you.”

　　After saying that, he slowly sat up with his hands on the ground and took care of his own injuries before walking towards the unconscious Loretta and Dunn and finding the “Goddess’s Gaze” from the latter’s inner pocket.

　　Klein returned to Al and fed the remaining half of the potion into his mouth.

　　Al gasped a few times and suddenly became athletic in his movements, standing up as if he had never been injured.

　　”I’ll go help Borgia, you take care of that companion of yours.” The very attractive gentleman of middle age pointed to Leonard Mitchell.

　　Without comment, Klein turned his body and jogged over to Leonard the Poet.

　　”No, I can drink it myself.” Leonard, whose hair hung in disarray, smiled and raised the sky blue metal vial in his hand.

　　Watching the other party prop his hand up and stand up nimbly, Klein, who wanted to make a slanderous comment, was suddenly stunned:

　　Leonard s injury is lighter than I expected ……

　　He has the ability to take the potion at the very beginning!

　　That is to say, he may have seen my counterclockwise four steps “transit ceremony”!

　　No, it’s a good thing that my meditation was in my heart, and there was no external abnormality in the “Transit Ceremony”, or else the Tuxedo Clown wouldn’t have been able to fall for it. ……

　　But even so, has long been recovered but chose to observe Leonard must have seen a lot of things, for example, I was not affected by the “2-049”, assassinated the tuxedo clown ……

　　Just as Klein’s eyes narrowed slightly, Leonard, who was coming in the opposite direction, stopped next to him and smiled lowly with his eyes looking ahead:

　　”I was going to save you, but realized you didn’t need it.”

　　”Don’t worry about it, there are many special people in this world, always able to do things that others can’t, like you ……”

　　”…… Also like me.” The corners of Leonard’s mouth turned up as he crossed over to Klein and walked towards the awakened Dunn and Lolota.

　　Narcissist …… Klein secretly spat out a sentence, and inwardly relaxed a lot.

　　It looks like Leonard Mitchell is hiding a lot of secrets too …… He thoughtfully rejoined the larger group and watched as Captain Dunn put on his gloves and picked up the yellow-brown and blood-stained Antigonus family notebook.

　　The wrapper of the notebook was made entirely of dark black stiff paper, and it exuded an ancient and distant aura, showing no signs of softening or decay, so nearly identical to what Krynn had seen in his dream that he began to wonder, to suspect that when he opened it, he would see a Fool in a splendid headdress.

　　But he soon knew he was overthinking, for Dunn carefully turned over the notes for final confirmation.

　　The words on it were not very clear to Klein at a poor angle, but he was certain that there was no Fool in ornate clothing and a splendid headdress among them.

　　”Ahem, no problem.” Dunn closed his notes and held them firmly, then looked to Al and the others, “Store it behind the Charnis Gate in Tingen City for the next few days, along with seal ‘2-049’ piece by piece, and wait until you guys recover, or Beckland sends someone over.”

　　Hearing these words, Klein was again a little disappointed and felt grateful, he wanted to read that Antigonus family notebook again and figure out the cause of the death of the original owner and Welch and Naya, but he felt that this ancient item was full of misfortune and always brought calamity, so he didn’t dare to touch it.

　　Turning it over to the church headquarters and sealing it up tightly is considered the best option …… He secretly exhaled.

　　”Okay.” El Hassan, Borgia, and Lolota nodded their heads and turned around at the same time, arriving next to the seal “2-049”.

　　They awakened each other, stuffed the puppet, which had somehow regained its mobility, back into the cracked, iron-black box, and monitored it closely.

　　”All clear.” There was more than a little relief in Al’s tone.

　　Inside the iron-black box with only a faint aura, the puppet wrapped in grease-stained cloth creaked and rolled over so that the face painted with clown greasepaint was pointed at the light source.

　　On the eerie face, below the pure black pupil-less eyes, two tiny dark red cracks appeared that could not easily be seen.

　　Meanwhile, Dunn, Leonard, and the courageous Klein searched the body of the tuxedoed clown, and found paper flowers, handkerchiefs, pokers, and pieces of glass, among a thousand other curious articles.

　　Beyond that, however, the other man had not brought anything of value, or that would give a clue.

　　Well, there were seven or eight pounds and a dozen soules in the wallet excepted …… Klein sighed quietly.

　　At the thought of money, he immediately lowered his head and examined himself, a face almost crumpling.

　　His formal attire, worth several pounds, had rubbed out five or six places that needed mending from tumbling and was littered with dirt and dust-laced stains.

　　Dunn glanced at him, the corners of his mouth turning upward covertly as he said:

　　”Any damage in the mission is reimbursable.”

　　Reimbursement …… Hearing this word “invented” by Emperor Rosier, Klein’s mood was instantly beautiful:

　　Well, this suit can still be worn after a good cleaning and mending, and it’s still decent enough ……

　　When the reimbursement comes down, you can buy another set and form a rotation!

　　Well, I’m not one to divert reimbursements to other uses ……

　　But in the future, we have to consider the “combat clothing”, such as the captain’s black trench coat …… material is a little less than the tuxedo formal wear, if a lot cheaper …… hiss, Leonard, this guy long-term Do not like to wear formal wear, is not there this consideration ……

　　”Let Fry handle the body, see if you can recognize his original looks and find clues about it.” Dunn touched the greasepaint on the tuxedoed clown’s face with his glove for a moment.

　　Afterward, they searched the innermost section of the warehouse and saw several boulder-crushed globs of bloody mess inside, and saw one white, broken bone after another thrown about.

　　”Rill Beebe would have been absorbing the power contained in the notes in an ancient ritual, much like we take higher grade serial magic potions directly, it’s fraught with danger, there must be undisturbed environments, and a certain amount of time must be gained to slumber, which should be why he hasn’t left Tingen as of yet.” Dunn scrutinized it, speculating on the possibilities.

　　Upon hearing such a description, the dark-haired lady, Lolota, gave a pale laugh:

　　”It’s a shame, he was woken up early by us, the rage of that wake up call was really memorable.”

　　”That’s one way to lose control.” Dunn looked over at Klein, half explaining, half teaching.

　　”Then why didn’t he just leave Tingen and go somewhere else to try and absorb it again?” Klein asked, puzzled.

　　Al Hassan laughed and pointed to his head:

　　”Guys who are affected by ancient powers, evil powers, tend to be less useful here.”

　　At that moment, Dunn sucked in a breath of implied pain and said:

　　”Leonard, you’re doing okay, so stay here and keep ordinary people away …… A few of us will immediately gather what’s left of Rill Beebe, return with them and the seals, as well as the notes from the Antigonus family, and get Frye, Loyal, and the police over here. “